Multiple sources from the conflict zone reported that Israeli occupation forces attacked the northern West Bank town of Jenin and its refugee camp, as well as several other towns and cities in the Palestinian territory this Saturday morning.
Witnesses said that the soldiers attacked Jenin in the hours before dawn, accompanied by several bulldozers, while military vehicles were stationed at the government hospital in the aforementioned town, next to the refugee camp.
Soldiers broke into several houses overlooking the camp and used snipers on buildings and roofs, shortly before Jewish soldiers stormed houses in the refugee camp and arrested people.
Power outages were also reported in the refugee camp and certain neighborhoods as Israeli forces sent flares into the sky during the raid.
At the same time, several raids were reported in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, as well as in the Ein al-Sultan and Aqbat Jabr refugee camps in Jericho in the Qalandia refugee camp
At the same time, several people were arrested in the city of Hebron and nearby Yatta, as well as in the towns of Beita and Qaryout south of Nablus.
On the other hand, this Saturday the deaths of dozens of civilians were reported following a series of Israeli airstrikes and artillery attacks in the Bureij and Nuseirat refugee camps in the center of Gaza and in Deir el-Balah, as well as in the Jabalia refugee camps in the north.
Dozens of civilians were killed and many more injured in the Israeli airstrike on a house in the Jabalia refugee camp.
Due to ongoing airstrikes and gunfire, rescue teams had difficulty reaching the affected people, complicating their efforts to transport the injured to hospitals.
In Gaza City and its northern areas, particularly in the Sheikh Radwan and Shejaiya neighborhoods, heavy Israeli airstrikes targeted homes and caused widespread destruction.
A day earlier, an Israeli airstrike killed 76 members of an extended family, rescue workers said, as the United Nations again warned that nowhere was safe in Gaza and that Israel's current offensive was creating “massive obstacles” to the distribution of humanitarian aid. Help.
Friday's attack on a building in Gaza City was one of the deadliest in Israel's war against the besieged enclave, now in its 12th week, said Mahmoud Bassal, spokesman for Gaza's Civil Defense Ministry.
Thomas White, director of the United Nations' Near East Palestine Refugee Agency (UNRWA) in Gaza, says “nothing has changed” in the besieged enclave since the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution on Friday evening to increase aid.
“People continue to be pushed into smaller and smaller spaces in the Gaza Strip; Auxiliary trucks alone will not solve this problem. “Right now we have Rafah, a city of normally 280,000 people, home to a million people,” White told Al Jazeera.
He reiterated the need for a ceasefire to end the suffering of civilians, hundreds of thousands of whom live outdoors, as “airstrikes continue to hit all parts of the Gaza Strip.”